African Roots

Today I learned about African roots. We read a poem written by Langston Hughes titled "The Negro Speaks of Rivers". As we read the poem, we analyzed it completely while also annotating. We looked deeply at the text to find things such as deeper meaning the author may have wrote. We applied such things to our personal lives. Mr. Reese showed us his family tree. Then, he tasked us with looking up our own family tree. Essentially, we learned about the importance of our roots.

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